A pumpkin based beef soup native to Haiti. Haiti was colonized by the French in the 1600s, enslaved Africans were forced to cultivate squash that forms the base of the soup, the Joumou, which means pumpkin or squash in French. The natives and Africans were banned from eating this soup by the French, even afterContinue reading “Soup Joumou”
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Cooking Video: Make Soup with me
This is a Tuscan inspired Soup.
Mortar & Pestle
These tools were used throughout my childhood in the Caribbean, to make pounded root vegetables like yam and dasheen or pounded breadfruit. Similar to West African fufu. The M&P were usually made out of wood, and larger in size than the mortar and pestle you would have seen used on a cooking show. I’m notContinue reading “Mortar & Pestle”
Sazon
Sazon is a used in daily Caribbean cooking. Milk, sugar, eggs, flour, bread, sazon Moving away to the southern hemisphere, I’ve not seen 1 box of sazon on sale at any grocery store or specialty store. I decided to do some research and see what exactly was sazon made of, and it was all thingsContinue reading “Sazon”
Grande Mangeur 